Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3958, Lemuel Gaylord, Conn

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn
Gaylord, Lemuel
R 3958
CONTENTS

State of Illinois } ss County of Marshall
On this fifteenth day of September personally appeared in open court, before the County Court of Marshall County now sitting, Lemuel Gaylord a resident of said County of Marshall and State of Illinois aged eighty six years and seven months who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That entered the service of the United States under the following named officer, and served as herein stated. The Captain's name was Gashum or Gueghan, Tuttle who was captain of a Company of teamsters. our order came from Col. Pickering & Maj. Stridmore. Entered the service in the month of July 1780 and was discharged about the first of December of the same year. It was as late as the first of Dec. & I think a few days later - & think that he entered the service in the first part of July. He resided in Farmington in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut at time of entering said service - the Army or that portion of it to which he was attached was at and in the vicinity of West Point during this first term of service. I served this term as substitute of Nathaniel Hart, does not recollect whether Capt. Tuttle gave him a written certificate of discharge or not.
2. Applicant returned to his home after his discharge as above and in the following Spring to wit about the 20th day of March 1781 he enlisted under the same officer the above named Capt. Tuttle and served during as transfer in Capt. Tuttle's Company until about the 28th of December of the same year, or until after Christmas & was discharged by a written certificate from said Tuttle. He was in vicinity of West Point and Newburg until about September when he marched southward his team hauled a mortar piece from Newburg to

Philadelphia, Thence to Head of Navigation on Chesapeake Bay (this march being on the Expedition - but a short time previous to the battle of York Town and the surrender of Cornwallis's his Army, was in fine  with the after said battle returned on to the north river & he received his discharge at a place called Plank's Point at Knip's Ferry below West Point, was in fact in service during the entire Campaign of 1781
3 d Applicant enlisted again under the same Commander and for the same Period of service on about the 20 th of March the next Spring to wit 1782 & served until about the 21 st of December the same Year, was three days going to his home after being discharged and got home to Farmington the day before Christmas, was discharged by a written Certificate from said Capt. Tuttle at a place about 10 miles west of West Point our head quarters was at Newburg during this season, Washington was then a part of the time. The certificate of discharge above mentioned the Applicant left with his Mother in said Farmington & they were afterwards destroyed the house in which my Mother lived being burnt with all of its contents,
The applicant is sure that he was in said service during said three terms, in all one Year and eleven months. Applicant's father & Family had removed to Wyoming about 3 Years previous to the Massacre of Wyoming by the Indians and Applicant's father was killed in said Massacre. Applicant with his Mother & Sister after said Massacre returned to Farmington, the native Town in Connecticut, after

State of Illinois County of Marshall } ss.
He or she Gaylord, being duly sworn on his oath doth depone and say, that he is a son (or reputed to be such) of Lemuel Gaylord mentioned in the foregoing declaration, that deponent's age is 52 Years, lived with my father said Lemuel Gaylord until I was 21 Years old, I have heard him relate his experience in the Revolution hundreds of times, I presume and as far back as I can remember & I can recollect as far back as 1808, the facts that he then related are the same which he has stated in his said declaration which I have heard read, deponent says that he never heard the facts doubted, but that his father informed the said service in the War of the Revolution, deponent has resided since he was 21 Years old in Ohio, Illinois & Iowa, as now residing in Town of Fairfield in Jefferson Co., & State of Iowa - Have occasionally visited my father since I left him as aforesaid & have always heard him relate & describe his said service, deponent believes him to be in his 87th Year and further deponent saith not.
Horace Gaylord
Subscribed to and acknowledged before me Clerk of the County Court of the County & State aforesaid & the year thereof at my Office in Salem this 15 th day of September A.D. 1861 Washington C. Cook Clerk

to "Wyoming" & remained in Pennsylvania until AD. 1814 & then removed to Hamilton County, Ohio, & lived there 16 years & since then he has resided in the said County of Marshall. Applicant served as substitute during the first term  only as described.
Applicant further states that he knows of no surviving witness who served with him by whom personal knowledge he can prove his service as aforesaid.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State.
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
his Lemuel Gaylord, mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me Clerk of the County Court of the County of State aforesaid and the Seal thereof at my Office in Salem this 15 th day of September AD 1851 Washington C Cook Clerk

State of Illinois County of Marshall } ss.
I Ezra Stout, a Clogyman residing in said County of Marshall hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Lemuel Gaylord who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that I have been intimately acquainted with him for the past eleven years. that I believe him to be about sixty or seven years old, that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that I fully concur in that opinion. I reside in the same neighborhood of said Gaylord, and have never heard the question doubted as to said Gaylord's service in the Revolution as he represents Given under my hand this 24 th day of September A.D. 1851
Ezra Stout
Sworn & Subscribed before me Clerk County Court of of said County & the Seal thereof at Lewistown this 24 th day of September A.D. 1851
Washington E. Cook Clerk

State of Illinois County of Marshall } ss.
Suey Gibson being duly sworn on oath says that she is 48 years old - that Lemuel Gaylord the said applicant for a pension is her father, that she was born in Bradford Co. Pennsylvania, in July 1803 & lived there with her said Father until the fall of A.D. 1814, & then removed with my said Father to Hamilton County in the State of Ohio, & lived with him at the latter place about 16 years when he removed to Marshall County in the State of Illinois, where he has since resided, for the two succeeding years after my father leaving Ohio. Deponent lived in the City of Saint Louis, and since that time have lived either with him or in his immediate neighborhood in said County of Marshall ever since, deponent has repeatedly heard him relate his services in the war of the Revolution as long ago as 1812 which is as far back as my recollections extends & from that date to until 1812, to the present time I have heard him relate the same and very often, and deponent says that the statements narrative  relations of the said Gaylord which she has heard from him as aforesaid agrees with his declaration annexed & hereto which deponent has heard read, deponent further states that the general report and belief among his neighbors where he now resides & also in Ohio where he did reside, was and is that the said Gaylord is a soldier of the Revolution - and that deponent never heard the question doubted as to his serving in said War as he represents. Sworn to and subscribed this 8th day of October A.D. 1857. Suey Gibson
Sworn & Subscribed before me this day & year above written Washington E. Cook Clerk for said Marshall County

State of Illinois and the said County - Marshall County Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department - That the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Ezra Stone who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman residing in the County of Marshall and State of Illinois and that Horace Gaylord and Lucy Gibson are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit given under my hand and seal this 22 d day of Nov. AD 1857
Silas P. Hovey Judge County Court of Marshall Co Ills
I Washington E Cook Clerk of the County Court of Marshall County Illinois do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Horace Gaylord for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said Court
This 22 d day of November AD 1857
Washington E Cook Clerk County Court

State of New York } Green County } p
Lonena Phelps of the Town of Durham in said County of Green, being duly sworn deposes and says, that she was the youngest daughter of Aaron Gaylord, and says she was about seven years of age at the time of the Wyoming Massacre - had a sister named Phebe and a Brother named Lemuel - that her Father was killed in the Battle, and recollects seeing her Father's Hat which was brought into the Fort by a Mr. Roberts - that her Mother then left the Fort in much alarm, taking her three children with some necessaries upon two Horses and fled through the Woods suffering many hardships, and finally reached New Cambridge, now called Bristol Connecticut.
Deponent further says, that about two years after their return from Wyoming, her Brother Lemuel went into the service of the U States, as a substitute for Nathaniel Hart, but does not recollect how long he served in that capacity - but remembers distinctly his going into service at a subsequent date, as from the circumstance of her Brother soliciting Capt. Tuttle to take good care of Lemuel as he was so young; and further, as cold Weather approached, her Mother expressed a great deal of anxiety about her Son, as he had no Blanket to protect him. Deponent further says, that her Mother's House was Burned with all the Papers, including her own Bedding & Wearing App-arel. Deponent further says, there never was any doubt expressed as to the fact of her Brother Lemuel serving in the Revolutionary War, for the Neighbours were in the habit frequently of calling at their House to console

18002
Leanne Gayton Illinois 3958
Supplemental
June 7, 1832
Clamant,
Sacon
Marshall Illinois.

with her Mother during the absence of her Son. Deponent further says, she was eighty years old the 9 th October last. Further Deponent says not.
Since Whittieress witness } to her marks
Sworn and subscribed } before me this 31 st day of } October 1857
her Lodena X Phelps mark
Since Whittieress Eustine of the peace

STATE OF NEW YORK, } ss. Greene County Clerk's Office.
I, JACOB VAN ORDEN, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that
since  the  deposition before whom the annexed was made, and whose name is thereto subscribed, was at the date thereof a John H. H. H. in and for said County, duly authorized to take the same, and that the signature thereto subscribed is genuine.
WITNESS my hand and official seal, at Catskill, this 5 th day of November 190 9
J. Van Orden Clk

January 3, 1939
BA-J/AWF Lemuel Gaylord R. 3958
The Quartermaster General Memorial Branch War Department Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for information in regard to Lemuel Gaylord, drummer boy in the Virginia militia, War of the Revolution, and died January 17, 1854 in Marshall County, Illinois.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, R. 3958, based upon the service of Lemuel Gaylord in the Revolutionary War. This is the record of the only Lemuel Gaylord found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The surname was searched under similar spellings.
Lemuel Gaylord was born in Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut, date not given. He was the son of Aaron Gaylord, the name of his mother is not stated. Aaron Gaylord moved with his family from Connecticut to Wyoming, about three years before the massacre there, and was killed in that massacre, after which Lemuel Gaylord, with his mother and sister, returned to Farmington or Bristol, Connecticut, where they lived during the Revolutionary War.
After the Revolution, Lemuel Gaylord when about twenty-two years of age, returned to Wyoming, and lived in Pennsylvania until the fall of 1814, when he moved to Hamilton County, Ohio and lived about sixteen years, and moved to Marshall County, Illinois.
Lemuel Gaylord applied for pension, September 15,

1851, at which time he was a resident of Marshall County, Illinois, and stated that he enlisted early in July, 1780, and served until sometime in December, 1780 in Captain Gershom Tuttle's company of Teamsters, that he served again in same company from March 20, 1781 to December 28, 1781, and in same company from March 20, 1782 to December 21, 1783.
The claim for pension was not allowed as proof of service, as required by the pension law was not furnished.
Horace Gaylord, son of Lemuel Gaylord, was fifty-two years of age in 1851; he stated that since he was twenty-one years old, he had lived in Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa, and that at that time (1851) he was living in Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa. Lucy Gibson, daughter of Lemuel Gaylord, was born in 1803 in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, and moved with her father to Hamilton County, Ohio, she stated she lived a short time in St. Louis, and in 1851, was living in Marshall County, Illinois.
Lorence (?) Phelps in 1851 was living in Durham, Greene County, New York, she was the youngest daughter of Aaron Gaylord, and was about seven years old at the time of the Wyoming Massacre; she referred to a sister, Phebe.
The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible data in regard to family.
The application for headstone for Lemuel Gaylord is returned herewith. There was no correspondence enclosed.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

279 Pension Office. May 24, 1857
Sir.
The application of Samuel Gaylord, for a pension has been examined and filed under the Act of 7 June 1832.
He alleges, in his declaration, to have served in Capt Gershon Tuttle's Company of teamsters for one year and eleven months, but no portion of this service is sustained by record evidence, or parole testimony. The claim cannot be allowed upon the simple declaration of the claimant.
Samuel L. Fleming, Esq. Lacou, N.Y.
Rev

Union, young July 2/54

Pension Office Feby 2 1834
Sir I enclose a copy of a letter of the 24 May 1852, to Samuel L Flem- ing, which will disclose the con- dition of the case of Lemuel Gay- lord, of Ill.
Richard M Young Esq Pursuant

Lemuel Gaylord St. Jan 32

Washington City, Jany 28. 1854. Hon. Loren P. Waldo
Commission of Pensions
Sir,
Several years ago Lemuel Gaylord of Illinois filed a declaration in the Pension Office for a pension on account of services rendered as a Seamster in the Revolutionary war - I was the last person employed as attorney to attend to it, and believe that the claim after examination was rejected . I am written to, to know what disposition has been finally made of the application - Will you please inform me; and if I was heretofore advised by letter, send me a copy of your last letter on the subject, and much oblig-
Yours very Respectfully Richard M Young Atty for Lemuel Gaylord of Illinois

Saxon, Marshall County Illinois
April 7 th 1852.
D. E. Heath. Com te of Pensions.
Dr. Sir.
I enclosed to you by mail, the papers touching Samuel Gaylord, a Revolutionary Soldier. For a pension some time in November last, - not receiving any acknowledgement of the receipt of said papers I wrote you some 2 months since making inquiries &c. about the papers, to which last letter as well as the first I have received no answer. Mr Gaylord is anxious to know in the first place whether his papers have been received at some Department, & if so he is desirous that his claim may be examined as soon as practicable. An answer will be very gratefully received.
Very Respectfully Yours Obedt
Sam l S. Fleming
Att'y for Samuel Gaylord.

Feb 23 1842 Rec: to Capt Saml Gaylord
Ramsey & Fleming Pace Sec.
Heath Com. Prison Prison Office Washington D. C.

Salem, Marshall Co., Ill., Feby 4th 1852
J. E. Heath Com. r Pensions.
Dr Sir, We mailed to Your Office something more than two months since the Declarations & other papers of Lemuel Gaylord, for a Pension under the Law of 1832, he being a Revolutionary Soldier, & the receipt of the same not having as yet been acknowledged we write You now to know whether they have been received not, & if received it will be ve- desirable to Mr Gaylord to have examined as soon as Your convenience will admit,
Very Respectfully
Yours
Barnes & Fleming, Atty for Gaylord,

1802
James Goggin Illinois
James Goggin James Goggin
Jan. 1802

aw Rev. War Section.
May 14, 1918.
Miss Lillie L. Moore, Roseburg, Oregon.
Madam:
In reply to your letter of the sixth instant, you are advised that in the Revolutionary War pension claim, Rejected File No. 3958, it appears that Lemuel Gaylord was born in Farmington, Hartford County, Conn., date not stated, and resided there during the Revolution. He alleged that he entered the service in July 1780, in Capt. Cershom Tuttle's Company of Teamsters and served until early in December 1780. Also that he served again in said company of teamsters from March 20, 1781 to December 28 1781 and from March 20, 1782 to December 21, 1782.
He applied for pension on September 15, 1851, at which time he was 86 years and 2 months old and lived in Marshall County, Illinois. His claim was rejected as he failed to furnish sufficient proof of his alleged services.
It is also stated that his father Aaron while living at Wyoming, Penn. was killed in the Massacre at that place. His son Horace was 52 years old and a resident of Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa, in 1851 and his daughter Lucy Gibson who was born in Bradford County, Penn. in July 1803 was in 1851 a resident of Marshall County, Illinois.
The above is the only Lemuel Gaylord found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Herewith is returned your money order for one dollar, as no fee is charged for the above information.
Very respectfully,
E. N. Duggan Commissioner.

BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
MAY 13 1918
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Chief of Pen. War Section Sir:
I have this day received from Lillie L. Moore draft No. 176,566 for $100.00, requesting post office  cash addresses as per letter herewith.
..... ..... ..... ..... ..... money order released May 14 1918 Francis D. Smith
Very respectfully,
C. A. Campbell Chief of Division.
[Faint mirrored text from the reverse side of the page, likely bleed-through from the original document.]
Very respectfully,
Comptroller.
[Handwritten signature or note, possibly "C. A. Campbell"]

money order ✓ $1.00 to be paid to P. O. Money Order No. 123456 W 05/18
Roseburg, Or., May 6 th , 1918.
Pension Department Revolutionary Period, Washington, D. C.; -
I wish to procure an official record of the Revolutionary Service of Lemuel Gaylord. If the same is of record in your department please send to me a certified copy of the same.
Lemuel Gaylord was in the Ordnance department and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis.
The enclosed P. O. Money Order is to pay for the certified copy. If the

amount is insufficient please notify me.
Address
Miss Lillie L. Moore,
P. O. Box 243,
Roseburg,
Oregon.

3958
P.O."> P.O. Samuel Gaylord
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: blame fed to lie to have cause of rejection
Re-enlisted: on printed list of 1852
Attorney: _____
P.O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
1918 May 14. Recd furnished. Amellie S. Moore and money order for one dollar returned to her and 1939 Feb 3. link to memorial Service and